Designing Interactions Bill Moggridge

Amy Lew : : Activating Environments

What is Design?

What’s the Problem?

Doing

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Explaining

Eames on Design

  Accomplishes & expresses a purpose

  Is a solution to a bounded problem

  Depends on the sum of all constraints

Synthesize

Frame/Reframe

Create & Envision Select

Visualize &

Prototype Core Skills

Remember This?

Doing

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Explaining

Ecology

Anthropology

Sociology

Psychology

Physiology

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The sizes of people

Stature Gender Age Ethnicity

Ecology

Anthropology

Sociology

Psychology

Physiology

Anthropometrics

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The way the body works

Actions as well as objects

Ecology

Anthropology

Sociology

Psychology

Physiology

Anthropometrics

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The way the mind works

What people need and want

Ecology

Anthropology

Sociology

Psychology

Physiology

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The way people relate to each other

Systems

Ecology

Anthropology

Sociology

Psychology

Physiology

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The human condition

Global market Cultural divides

Ecology

Anthropology

Sociology

Psychology

Physiology

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The independence of living things

“Cradle to cradle” Sustainability

Why Interaction Design?

  Design solutions have:  Human and subjective qualities  Digital context

Interaction Design as a Discipline

  A narrow definition:   “The design of the subjective and

qualitative aspects of everything that is both digital and interactive”

Interaction Design as Holistic

  A broad definition:   “The design of everything that is both

digital and interactive”

Where does Interaction Design ultimately fit?